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Fellow residents of Eagle: Are you looking for reasons to vote “no” on the Eagle River Station? I have 581 of them.
In an already flooded and fragile downvalley housing market, the 581 residential units planned for ERS will decimate home values and rental opportunities for years to come and will do so instantly as downvalley buyer prospects worry about their own resale opportunities in the face of such overgrowth.
On my home's appraisal of a few years ago, a seemingly illogical purchase price was justified due to the surrounding BLM and open space land, which prohibits sprawl and keeps supply limited in the face of demand. Perhaps your appraisal reads similarly.
The 10 percent to 15 percent overnight increase of residential dwellings in Eagle that will take place if ERS is approved will instantly destroy such a claim and will have a major detrimental impact upon our real estate investments.
The good news is that we as Eagle residents are in control. We have the opportunity to vote down this monstrosity of a project that is unbecoming of the small-community culture in which we have chosen to live.
I urge you to think about your own situation (it's an easy 30 minutes from our house to our Target) and not be persuaded by upvalley ERS advocates who wish it was an easy 30 minutes to theirs.
Matt Spencer Eagle
In an already flooded and fragile downvalley housing market, the 581 residential units planned for ERS will decimate home values and rental opportunities for years to come and will do so instantly as downvalley buyer prospects worry about their own resale opportunities in the face of such overgrowth.
On my home's appraisal of a few years ago, a seemingly illogical purchase price was justified due to the surrounding BLM and open space land, which prohibits sprawl and keeps supply limited in the face of demand. Perhaps your appraisal reads similarly.
The 10 percent to 15 percent overnight increase of residential dwellings in Eagle that will take place if ERS is approved will instantly destroy such a claim and will have a major detrimental impact upon our real estate investments.
The good news is that we as Eagle residents are in control. We have the opportunity to vote down this monstrosity of a project that is unbecoming of the small-community culture in which we have chosen to live.
I urge you to think about your own situation (it's an easy 30 minutes from our house to our Target) and not be persuaded by upvalley ERS advocates who wish it was an easy 30 minutes to theirs.
Matt Spencer Eagle
